In Granada, like the Catholic Monarchs more than 500 years ago, Real Madrid conquered half the League. He did so with a victory that leads him to his 34th reign in the Spanish championship, the longest-lived of all dynasties. In fact, a victory of their own, or a defeat for Barcelona on the next day, would ensure the trophy back three years later.
Real is one step away from returning to the throne that Zidane has pursued so much and that, on the Frenchman's lips, is more important than the Champions League. Bigger words in the White House. In addition, he comes to confirm as a coach – better or worse, that is already debatable – before all those who branded him as an aligner, a profession that he never seemed to leave. Yesterday in Los Cármenes he proposed a scheme with five midfielders, as in the Arabian Super Cup, and again the coin came out expensive. His ‘chosen’ Mendy also contributed to this, as he dressed up as Roberto Carlos to pave the way with a superb goal and may not yet fully explain himself as he signed.
The team game offered a more decorous than pragmatic version. He stormed the Alhambra, a stronghold of a tough team, like Boabdil, with a different face than the previous ones. A friendlier and more generous. Although he once saw his flag placed on the Generalife, he only complied with the file that has brought him here and that put him in trouble. A Granada that little more could be asked this year pushed but without success.
Bale does his thing
In another order of events, a player, Bale, who has long ceased to be news for his goals to be news for his attitude. To golf, to the premature exits of the Bernabéu and to the ‘siesta’ of last week, he added another curious image in which, with the tape, he pretended to have binoculars to see the game better. British humour.